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1.
Larry Tesler Has Died (gizmodo.com)
1346 points by drallison on Feb 18, 2020 | 149 comments
2.
Bert Sutherland Has Died (wikipedia.org)
680 points by dang on Feb 19, 2020 | 33 comments
3.
Explorabl.es (explorabl.es)
894 points by rickdeveloper on Feb 19, 2020 | 36 comments
4.
Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas (github.com/amzn)
687 points by alok-g on Feb 18, 2020 | 92 comments
5.
Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) (changelog.com)
589 points by Tomte on Feb 19, 2020 | 281 comments
6.
Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months (krebsonsecurity.com)
520 points by feross on Feb 19, 2020 | 232 comments
7.
Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements (letsencrypt.org)
469 points by mmoez on Feb 19, 2020 | 137 comments
8.
ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data (adsbexchange.com)
438 points by AWildC182 on Feb 18, 2020 | 196 comments
9.
How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet (benjojo.co.uk)
433 points by petercooper on Feb 19, 2020 | 162 comments
10.
Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three (andrew-best.com)
321 points by mariuz on Feb 18, 2020 | 14 comments
11.
Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb (electronupdate.blogspot.com)
324 points by teucris on Feb 19, 2020 | 287 comments
12.
Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse (materialize.io)
262 points by irfansharif on Feb 18, 2020 | 100 comments
13.
Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources (reuters.com)
279 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 19, 2020 | 203 comments
14.
Wearable Microphone Jamming (uchicago.edu)
236 points by _lffv on Feb 19, 2020 | 67 comments
15.
The Problem with Palm Oil (ethical.net)
270 points by hispanic on Feb 19, 2020 | 207 comments
16.
Lambda School’s Misleading Promises (nymag.com)
406 points by uptown on Feb 19, 2020 | 240 comments
17.
I Worked for a Criminal Organization (openmonstervision.github.io)
264 points by bsdpunk on Feb 18, 2020 | 226 comments
18.
In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis (newrepublic.com)
215 points by benbreen on Feb 17, 2020 | 276 comments
19.
Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council (theregister.co.uk)
412 points by sohkamyung on Feb 19, 2020 | 111 comments
20.
Google Fonts Analytics (fonts.google.com)
228 points by rememberlenny on Feb 19, 2020 | 185 comments
21.
 [dupe] Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) (twitter.com/gravislizard)
602 points by Bender on Feb 19, 2020 | 374 comments
22.
Launch HN: Goodcover (YC S17) – Cooperative renters insurance for half the price
158 points by chrisplotz on Feb 19, 2020 | 86 comments
23.
Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax (pyos.github.io)
149 points by goranmoomin on Feb 19, 2020 | 77 comments
24.
Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it (rosalind.info)
167 points by mnemonicsloth on Feb 18, 2020 | 40 comments
25.
A Practical Guide to Watchdogs for Embedded Systems (memfault.com)
104 points by fra on Feb 19, 2020 | 29 comments
26.
Fork Bomb (wikipedia.org)
140 points by jacobedawson on Feb 19, 2020 | 111 comments
27.
Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria (techcrunch.com)
131 points by daddy_drank on Feb 18, 2020 | 135 comments
28.
Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems (rfox.eu)
221 points by Bystroushaak on Feb 18, 2020 | 193 comments
29.
Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end (medium.com/makani-blog)
140 points by thanhhaimai on Feb 18, 2020 | 130 comments
30.
JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI (jpeg.org)
113 points by jonsneyers on Feb 18, 2020 | 70 comments

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